Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2013

Global land-use changes caused by a major ramp-up in biofuel crops—enough to meet about 10% of the world’s energy needs—could make some regions warmer, according to a new integrated modeling study by researchers from MIT and the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole. —Willow Hallgren, lead author.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2020

Preliminary findings included as part of the brief: The greenhouse gas emissions benefits of EVs are clear and will grow as global electricity supplies become increasingly less carbon-intensive. As the first step in this initiative, CLEE and NRGI have prepared a background brief on the issue.

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Drive Electric

AUGUST 9, 2022

Electric vehicles typically have a smaller operating carbon footprint than gasoline cars, even when accounting for the electricity used for charging. With the full cradle-to-grave life cycle in mind, the question becomes: does an EV have a smaller carbon footprint over its lifetime than an ICEV? Manufacturing an Electric Vehicle.

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Drive Electric

AUGUST 9, 2022

Electric vehicles typically have a smaller carbon footprint than gasoline cars, even when accounting for the electricity used for charging. For this reason, it’s not only the carbon emissions from using your vehicle to take into consideration but also the manufacturing process. Manufacturing an Electric Vehicle.

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 16, 2022

According to a recent report from S&P Global Commodity Insights , the price of cobalt is up around 85%, and nickel about 55%, over the past year, but lithium has really gone through the roof—prices for the light white stuff have surged over 700% since the beginning of 2021. What’s the scarcest of them all? Greening the supply chain.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

China continues to dominate BloombergNEF’s (BNEF) global lithium-ion battery supply chain ranking, for the third time in a row, for both 2022 and its projection for 2027, due to continued support for the electric vehicle demand and raw materials investments. —Ellie Gomes-Callus, metals and mining analyst at BNEF.

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